Sunday, January 22, 2012

TIN BIGHA CORRIDOR

Teen Bigha Corridor

তিনবিঘা করিডর

LALMONIRHAT

Teen [3] Bigha Corridor

Tin Bigha corridor

The Teen [3] Bigha Corridor is a Fragment of land belonging to India. It is located between Dahagram–Angarpota enclaves at KucalibariUnion in Patgram sub-district of Lalmonirhat on the West Bengal–Bangladesh border. which in September, 2011, was leased to Bangladesh so that it can access its Dahagram–Angarpota enclaves.

According to the Indira-Sheikh Mujib treaty of 1974, India and Bangladesh were to hand over the sovereignty of the Teen Bigha (Teen is three in Bengali, and bigha is a unit of area roughly 1,500 to 6,771 square meters) Corridor (178 x 85 sq m) and South Berubari (7.39 sq km) to each other, thereby allowing entrance to the Dahagram Angarpota enclaves and the Indian enclaves adjacent to South Berubari. Bangladesh did hand over the bigger South Berubari to India in 1974. India, however, Rejected to transfer the much smaller Teen Bigha Corridor to Bangladesh.